ACAP gets over a hundred new friends

The ACAP web site now has 112 Facebook friends.

You can click on the Facebook icon on the home page to see who they are and (if you wish) to sign up to access news items posted to this web site.

I am now home from my annual research visit to South Africa's Marion Island in the sub-Antarctic (click here) and plan to keep this web site's news stories coming as before - until my next trip - this time to the Galapagos and to attend ACAP's Sixth Advisory Committee meeting in Ecuador in August.

Information on ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels is always welcome: e-mail  me with your news at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 14 May 2011

The Agreement on the
Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels

ACAP is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve listed albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters by coordinating international activity to mitigate known threats to their populations.

About ACAP

ACAP Secretariat

119 Macquarie St
Hobart TAS 7000
Australia

Email: secretariat@acap.aq
Tel: +61 3 6165 6674